Strategic Solutions, Inc. Updates
The news that the Omicron strain of SARS-Cov2 has mouse fingerprints all over it probably didn’t rock your world, but it maybe it should. Let’s first explain the mouse part.Wei et al claim that the molecular spectrum of mutations (i.e., the relative frequency of the...
Strategic Solutions, Inc. Updates
We’ve seen a lot of drama in the past few weeks with the rise of the Omicron strain. Some of it may turn out to be justified. This strain has an interesting lineage (Figure 1) that came from South Africa. South Africa has been a source of other strains that never...
Strategic Solutions, Inc. Updates
This is the first and last time I’m getting on a soapbox. Usually, I try hard to be balanced and objective when writing blogs about medicine or science. Not this time. As we approach Thanksgiving in the USA, we’re more than 2 years into the SARS-Cov2 pandemic. Over 17...
Strategic Solutions, Inc. Updates
In this blog we’ll mostly take a 35,000-foot view of a number of issues (with some exceptions), and take a long, hard look at how the pandemic will progress, and finally end. Basic epidemiology With the delta variant (strain b1617.2), the virus upped its game. It...
Strategic Solutions, Inc. Updates
Pandemics are multi-year events that often go in phases. The 1918 flu pandemic had 3 distinct phases of which the second was the deadliest. I have some serious concern that April 2021 through March 2022 will follow that pattern if we don’t reach herd immunity this...
